William Peters Hepburn

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William Peters Hepburn was an American Republican congressman from Iowa best known for his leadership in railroad regulation and sponsorship of the landmark Hepburn Act of 1906.

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Label Occurrences
William Peters Hepburn canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
lawyer
member of the United States House of Representatives
politician
associatedWith Interstate Commerce Commission
Progressive Era reforms
birthDate 1833-11-04
birthPlace Wellsville, Ohio NERFINISHED
burialPlace Clarinda Cemetery
conflict American Civil War
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1916-02-09
deathPlace Clarinda, Iowa
educatedAt Iowa Wesleyan College
surface form: Iowa Wesleyan University
ethnicGroup European American
familyName Hepburn
fieldOfWork interstate commerce regulation
railroad regulation
givenName William
hasOccupation legislator
influenced expansion of federal regulation of railroads
jurisdiction United States of America
surface form: United States
knownFor leadership in railroad regulation
sponsorship of the Hepburn Act of 1906
languageSpoken English
legislativeBody United States House of Representatives
memberOfPoliticalParty Republican Party
surface form: Republican Party (United States)
middleName Peters
militaryBranch Union Army
militaryRank major
notableWork Hepburn Act
surface form: Hepburn Act of 1906
occupation lawyer
politician
partOf history of railroad regulation in the United States
partyAffiliation Republican Party
surface form: Republican Party (United States)
positionHeld chair of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
member of the United States House of Representatives
religion Methodism
represented Iowa
residence Clarinda, Iowa
sexOrGender male
sponsorOf Hepburn Act
surface form: Hepburn Act of 1906
spouse Adele H. Hepburn
stateRepresentedInTheUSHouseOfRepresentatives Iowa
USCongressBioID H000519
workLocation Iowa
Washington, D.C.

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: William Peters Hepburn
Description of subject: William Peters Hepburn was an American Republican congressman from Iowa best known for his leadership in railroad regulation and sponsorship of the landmark Hepburn Act of 1906.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hepburn Act regulation of railroads namedAfter William Peters Hepburn
subject surface form: Hepburn Act
Hepburn Act regulation of railroads sponsor William Peters Hepburn
subject surface form: Hepburn Act
Hepburn Act namedAfter William Peters Hepburn